Comments on: vsftpd 500 OOPS error http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2009/01/31/vsftpd-500-oops-error/ weblog Mon, 21 May 2012 19:56:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: Joseph http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2009/01/31/vsftpd-500-oops-error/#comment-2369 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2009/01/31/vsftpd-500-oops-error/#comment-2369 trailing space or other whitespace usually because you edited the file in windows. run vsftpd.conf through strings to fix it: strings vsftdp.conf > vsftpd.new cp vsftpd.conf vsftpd.conf.todaysdate.bak mv vsftpd.new vsftpd.conf trailing space or other whitespace usually because you edited the file in windows.
run vsftpd.conf through strings to fix it:
strings vsftdp.conf > vsftpd.new
cp vsftpd.conf vsftpd.conf.todaysdate.bak
mv vsftpd.new vsftpd.conf

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